S2767-2011 Actions

• Mar 12, 2012: COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
• Mar 12, 2012: NOTICE OF COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION - REQUESTED
• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO FINANCE
• Feb 1, 2011: REFERRED TO FINANCE

S2767-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S2767

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring state and municipal
agencies, authorities, boards and commissions that collect demographic
data as to the ancestry or origins of state residents to utilize a
separate collection and tabulation category entitled "Asian or Pacific
Islander" for the purpose of identifying persons having origins in any
of the Far East countries, South East Asia, the Indian subcontinent or
the Pacific Islands

PURPOSE:
To amend the executive law, in relation to requiring state
and municipal agencies, authorities, boards and commissions that
collect demographic data.as to the ancestry or origins of state
residents to utilize a separate collection and tabulation category
entitled "Asian or Pacific Islander" for the purpose of identifying
persons having origins in any of the Far East countries, South East
Asia, the Indian subcontinent or the Pacific Islands.

JUSTIFICATION:
Oftentimes, agencies omit the Asian or Pacific Islander
category when collecting demographics, and are often categorized
instead as "Others". Since Asian or Pacific Islanders constitute
approximately 7 percent of the State's population and approximately
13 percent of New York City's population, it is difficult to
determine whether or not such agencies are identifying the needs of
this specific racial demographic, and when categorized as "Others",
their needs are left unmet.

For example, in the New York State Department of Health's "The Impact
of Oral Disease" report from December 2006, Table VI, titled
"Percentage of People who Had Their Teeth Cleaned within the Past
Year Aged 18 and Older", Asians are not categorized in the
ethnicities, and are therefore listed as "Other". Additionally, in
the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services' 200$ report
on Domestic Homicide in New York State neglected to categorize the
victimized Asian population.

This bill only affects agencies that presently already collect
demographic data.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Senate
2009-10:  S.7665 - Referred to Finance

Assembly.
2009-10:  A.9973 (Meng) Referred to Governmental Operations

EFFECTIVE DATE:

This act shall take effect immediately.

S2767-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         2767
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 February 1, 2011
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. HASSELL-THOMPSON -- read twice and ordered printed,
 and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
 

AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to  requiring  state  and
 municipal  agencies,  authorities, boards and commissions that collect
 demographic data as to the ancestry or origins of state  residents  to
 utilize  a separate collection and tabulation category entitled "Asian
 or Pacific Islander" for the purpose  of  identifying  persons  having
 origins  in any of the Far East countries, South East Asia, the Indian
 subcontinent or the Pacific Islands
 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section  1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 170-c
 to read as follows:

 

S 170-C. RACIAL REFERENCES UTILIZED IN THE COLLECTION  OF  DEMOGRAPHIC
 DATA. ANY STATE OR MUNICIPAL AGENCY, AUTHORITY, BOARD OR COMMISSION THAT
 COLLECTS  DEMOGRAPHIC  DATA AS TO THE ANCESTRY OR ORIGINS OF STATE RESI
 DENTS SHALL UTILIZE IN SUCH COLLECTION, AND IN ALL FORMS AND OTHER WRIT
 TEN AND ELECTRONIC MATERIALS ASSOCIATED WITH SUCH COLLECTION, A SEPARATE
 COLLECTION AND TABULATION CATEGORY ENTITLED "ASIAN OR PACIFIC  ISLANDER"
 FOR  THE PURPOSE OF IDENTIFYING PERSONS HAVING ORIGINS IN ANY OF THE FAR
 EAST COUNTRIES, SOUTH EAST ASIA, THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT OR THE  PACIFIC
 ISLANDS.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05513-01-1

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